1. (a) Each health insurer and the state health care benefits program shall permit a woman insured by the health insurer or such program to visit an in-network obstetrician or gynecologist for routine gynecological care from an in-network obstetrician or gynecologist one time each calendar year without requiring such woman to first visit or receive a referral from a primary care provider, so long as the care is medically necessary, including, but not limited to, care that is routine.
2. (b) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the patient protection act, cited at K.S.A. 40-4601 et seq., and amendments thereto.

L. 2001, ch. 198, § 1; July 1.